Author: Derrick Turbitt, Northern Ireland

Early Daffodil

Ian Tyler’s photo of Rijnveld’s Early Sensation (RES) was very timely for me.  On Friday (27th Dec) I photographed an early daffodil in flower in my mother’s garden. (Co Armagh, N Ireland).  It usually flowers in late December or early January.  After…

NIDG meeting

Hi,     The speaker at the N Ireland Daffodil Group November meeting was john Blanchard.  The topic was wild daffodils and John enthralled us with slides of wild daffodils from Spain and Portugal.  The photo shows John and Richard…

First flowers

Hi All,       Over here in N Ireland most planting was completed by mid September and a few are showing above ground.  A year ago I got some romieuxii hybrids.  Last week the first one ‘Treble Chance’ started to…

Last Flowers of 2008

The last seedling to bloom flowered 3 days after our last show.  It is a green eyed 3W-GYR  from ‘Picasso’ x ‘Omaha’                                     …

Last daffodils of 2008

These are the last of the poets to flower with me.  Both seedlings, sdg div9 ref1 reflexes quite a bit and the othe seedling is div9 W-GGY; no red rim so it might not belong to div 9  ???  …